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The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Russia takes small cities, aims to widen east Ukraine battle

Russia has claimed the capture of a key railway junction as its forces fight to seize all of eastern Ukraine's contested Donbas region

The Independent UK

Putin defiant as Macron and Scholz call for fresh Ukraine peace talks

The Russian president warned the French and German leaders it was ‘dangerous’ for the west to supply further weapons to Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine says doing 'everything' to defend Donbas from Russian onslaught

Kramatorsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine said it is doing "everything" to defend the eastern Donbas region, where Russia confirmed Saturday it had captured a strategic town in its intensifying offensive.

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Ukrainian troops may have to retreat in Luhansk to avoid being surrounded, governor says

UK Ministry of Defence says Russia ‘had likely captured’ strategically important town Lyman

The Independent UK

EU leaders hold talks with Putin as battle for eastern Ukraine intensifies

The German chancellor’s office said Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz “insisted on an immediate ceasefire”

Evening Standard

Macron and Germany’s Scholz urge Putin to hold ‘direct negotiations’ with Zelensky

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold “serious direct negotiations” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find “a diplomatic solution to the conflict” during a phone call Saturday, the chancellor’s office said. Putin told the two leaders that increasing arms supplies…

France 24

Ukraine may lose last pocket of resistance in Luhansk as Russia advances east

A Ukrainian official says forces may have to retreat from their last pocket in the Luhansk region to avoid being captured, as Russian troops press an advance in the east that has shifted the momentum of the three-month-old war.

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Russia claims capture of strategic town as fighting rages in east – as it happened

Russia’s defence ministry says town of Lyman is now under full control of its forces, after days of fighting

The Guardian - AU

Biden says Putin trying to ‘wipe out’ Ukrainian culture, as prospect of retreat looms in east

US president says Putin trying to eliminate people’s identity, as governor of Luhansk says retreat in Sievierodonetsk may be needed to avoid becoming surrounded.

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine says 'everything' being done to defend Donbas from Russian onslaught

Lysychansk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine has said it is doing "everything" to defend Donbas, where an intensifying Russian offensive is prompting Kyiv's forces to consider a strategic retreat from some key areas to avoid being surrounded.

AFP

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 27)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

WEKU

Ukrainians say they're badly outgunned by Russia in the battle for the Donbas

While many Ukrainians are still basking in the successful defense of Kyiv, the battle in the Donbas is a punishing grind that poses different challenges.

WEKU

Russia moves on key city amid Ukraine church schism

Lysychansk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russian troops were approaching the strategic city of Severodonetsk on Friday in a relentless offensive to control Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, as the war triggered a historic schism between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its Russian patriarchate.

AFP

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Moscow gaining the ‘upper hand’ in Donbas … the horrors endured by Mariupol’s survivors … Russia’s use of cluster bombs and unguided missiles

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AFP

Russian forces close in on key Ukraine city in east

Lysychansk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russian troops were moving in on the strategic city of Severodonetsk Friday in a relentless offensive to control Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, bombing residential areas and claiming the capture of a key town.

The Guardian - UK

Russia’s ‘cauldron’ tactic may be tipping Donbas battle in its favour

Analysis: smaller encirclements that are pounded with artillery are forcing exhausted Ukrainian forces to yield

AFP

Russia closes in on key Ukraine Donbas city

Lysychansk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russian forces were closing in Friday on the strategic city of Severodonetsk in a relentless offensive to control Ukraine's Donbas region, bombing residential areas and claiming the capture of a key town.

The Guardian - UK

Russian forces close to encircling Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine

Situation in Donbas ‘even worse than people say it is’, says Ukraine’s foreign minister, as Kremlin makes further gains

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Evening Standard

Russian troops making ‘palpable progress’ in Donbas, Boris Johnson warns

‘I’m afraid that Putin, at great cost to himself and to Russian military, is continuing to chew through ground in Donbas,’ the Prime Minister told Bloomberg TV

The Independent UK

Ukraine pleads for western help as Russian advance continues in Donbas

‘If you really care for Ukraine, weapons, weapons and weapons again,’ says Ukraine’s foreign minister

AFP

Russia presses Donbas assault, claims capture of key town

Lysychansk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia on Friday pressed its deadly offensive to capture key points in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, with more bombing of residential areas and pro-Moscow forces claiming the capture of a key town on the way to Kyiv-controlled territory.

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson warns 'crocodile' Vladimir Putin is 'chewing through' Ukraine

The Prime Minister called for more Multiple Launch Rocket Systems to be sent to Ukraine as he warned Russia's forces are making 'gradual, slow but I'm afraid palpable progress' in the Donbas

Reuters

UK's Boris Johnson says Putin making slow but palpable progress in Donbas

Russian President Vladimir Putin is making slow but palpable progress in the Donbas in east Ukraine, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Battles to Take Railroad Hub, Surrounds Major City in East Ukraine

Russian forces in eastern Ukraine captured the center of the railway hub town of Lyman and encircled most of Sievierodonetsk city, Ukrainian officials said on Friday, as Kyiv's forces fell back in the face of Moscow's biggest advance for weeks. Ukraine said its forces still held new defensive lines in…

AFP

Russia pounds Ukraine's Kharkiv, presses Donbas assault

Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine's second city Kharkiv on Friday reeled from a deadly onslaught of Russian shelling as Moscow pressed its offensive to capture key points in the eastern Donbas region with more bombing of residential areas.

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